From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, chris@chris-wilson.co.uk,
stable@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
bigeasy@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: check to see if SIMD registers are available before using SIMD
Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 11:07:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200501180731.GA2485@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200430221016.3866-1-Jason@zx2c4.com>
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 04:10:16PM -0600, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Sometimes it's not okay to use SIMD registers, the conditions for which
> have changed subtly from kernel release to kernel release. Usually the
> pattern is to check for may_use_simd() and then fallback to using
> something slower in the unlikely case SIMD registers aren't available.
> So, this patch fixes up i915's accelerated memcpy routines to fallback
> to boring memcpy if may_use_simd() is false.
Err, why does i915 implements its own uncached memcpy instead of relying
on core functionality to start with?
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-30 22:10 [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: check to see if SIMD registers are available before using SIMD Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-05-01 10:42 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-01 11:34 ` David Laight
2020-05-01 21:54 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-05-01 17:19 ` [Intel-gfx] ✗ Fi.CI.CHECKPATCH: warning for " Patchwork
2020-05-01 17:43 ` [Intel-gfx] ✓ Fi.CI.BAT: success " Patchwork
2020-05-01 18:07 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-05-01 21:55 ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-05-03 20:20 ` Chris Wilson
2020-05-04 16:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-04 16:15 ` David Laight
2020-05-01 20:26 ` [Intel-gfx] ✓ Fi.CI.IGT: success for " Patchwork
2020-05-03 20:30 ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] " Chris Wilson
2020-05-03 20:35 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
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